The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.
Gustav LandauerAnarchism's lone objective is to reach a point at which the belligerence of some humans against humanity, in whatever form, comes to a halt.
Gustav LandauerWe are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.
Gustav LandauerThe State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men.
Gustav Landauer